ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,086, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Potter Electric Signal Co. LLC (Maryland Heights, Mo.).
"Leak rate monitoring for a fire sprinkler system" was invented by Mike Henke (Florissant, Mo.), Timothy Decker (Florissant, Mo.), Jason Webb (Urich, Mo.) and Andrew Kaempfer (Eureka, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring and testing system which is designed to automatically seal off the system from its gas supply and monitor internal pressure during that time to perform regulatory testing. The scheduling can be automated and can be done without maintenance personnel having to monitor the time passage and pressure manually. The sys...